Ward Churchill on the history of US counter-insurgency and the case of Leonard Peltier

Program Title: COINTELPRO, Leonard Peltier and the Limits of Resistance: A Conversation with Ward Churchill
Description: This episode of the Global Research News Hour features an hour long conversation with Ward Churchill.

Churchill is an author, academic and political activist. He is the author of several books including Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement. Which he co-authored with Jim Vander Wall, as well ashis controversial 2003 work On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality.

IN this interview, Churchill discusses the history of Counterintelligence activities in the United States leading up to the COINTELPRO program of the 1960s, the involvement of the American Indian Movement in Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and the case of Leonard Peltier who he argues has been unjustly arrested and incarcerated.

Peltier has been diagnosed recently with Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm which is posing a threat to his life.
Visit www.whoisleonardpeltier.info for details and updates.

Host(s): Michael Welch
Featured Speakers/Guests: Ward Churchill

Credits: Interview by Michael Welch

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